Kimon Phitidis
Kimon Phitidis is a director of Social Innovations, a social investment agency that delivers academic support programmes into public schools
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/ 18 March 2005

Secrets of the forest

Rising sharply out of Colombia’s Caribbean shoreline, the 3 000m Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal mountain formation in the world. Its exquisitely beautiful slopes, covered in dense cloud forest, are home to an ancient cosmology — as well as being a wellspring for the world’s most notorious narcotics trade. Adventurous tourists can explore both.